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Speaking of which:  is there a better way to check whether a package
is available other than using require() and catching errors with
pcall()?

  - yuri

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

>  Lua 5.2 will include a package.searchpath function. It is similar
>  to this package.findfile, but it returns only the file name (not the
>  file handler).
>
>  -- Roberto
>